I think that Obama-Jama is doing as well as he is simply because nobody likes Mrs. Clinton.
But then, the Democrats have this really stupid proportional thing with delegates.
If their system was like the GOP system, winner takes all, Mrs. Clinton would probably be the nominee by now, and Obama-Jama would be back in his neighborhood, licking his wounds and wondering what went wrong.
As for your father-in-law, you have my deepest sympathy.
Mine, for a spell, was making similar noises, until he asked me what I thought of Obama-Jama. My answer: “He’s a bloody socialist!” That took care of the problem.
Ha! I’ve had similar encounters — only my answer is, he’s a MARXIST.
His “friends” that he now denies hold the most extreme possible leftist views. He himself was recognized by the National Journal as the most left-wing US senator, in 2007.
Take a careful look at Black Liberation Theology — it’s a black-racist variation on Liberation Theology, which is fundamentally Marxist in its credo. He listened intently to that nonsense for 20 years.
B. Hussein’s positions are indistinguishable from someone whose core belief is:
“From each according to ability, to each according to need.”